forget the river

Chapter 17

Before the news of the amnesty of Yuanzhong Wang's return to Beijing was sent out, the queen mother had already passed away.The accident came unexpectedly, and the post envoy who sent the order was already on his way.After receiving the news that the Empress Dowager was gone, the Beijing Zhongyi Cheng didn't know whether to hurry up and recall the person back to Beijing, or to follow the previous order.

But the Holy Majesty is still mourning the sudden loss of a loved one, and adding trouble to the Holy Majesty is no less than plucking hair from a tiger's head.However, the matter of amnesty for the sinners to return to Beijing can be big or small. Yicheng is afraid that if he does not act now and will cause negligence, he will be really unforgivable if he is held accountable.Time waits for no one, so the old Yicheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask for a face saint.

However, Yi Cheng took the official seal and passed three checkpoints and six cards to enter the palace with great difficulty. He saw that as long as the inner eunuch informed the emperor that he could meet the emperor, he was stopped in Fu'an by the palace servants who served the emperor personally. outside the temple.

Unexpectedly, the palace man only said that there is no need to report, and that there is a decree from the sage, and no one will see it.This time made Yi Cheng very anxious, the old man was sweating all over his face in a hurry, when he saw the Seventh Prince walking out of the inner hall, as if he saw a life-saving straw, he hurriedly bowed his body to greet him in three steps and two steps.

The Seventh Prince held a rolled up booklet in his hand, and tapped on the sore spot on his shoulder.Startled by the old man kneeling in front of him with a thud, he raised his head and looked at the inner eunuch who led the people in with a puzzled expression on his face, and got Yicheng up, he was too anxious to speak clearly, the inner eunuch sorted out the matter Come help and repeat.

Jingxiang's veins twitched, "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and find someone to stop the amnesty order!" You can be an official even with a pig's brain. Uncertainty on the heart.At that time, Mu Yan died of injustice, which caused the Empress Dowager to be unhappy in her later years, and there was a large part of the reason for Kyungkang.

I'm afraid that Kyungkang will come to Beijing with an amnesty in his hand, let alone an amnesty. Although time has passed and the situation has changed, he will not die, but Kyunglo will not be able to vent his hatred if he does not imprison him in the prison for ten or eight years.Thinking of this, Jingxiang couldn't help but shiver, very scared.There are a lot of miscellaneous things these days, which really makes Jingxiang dizzy.

Speaking of the empress dowager's death, it is embarrassing.The Empress Dowager became very ill, and she was always confused when she was bedridden, and all the medical officers in the palace were helpless.Until one day, the Empress Dowager's condition seemed to have improved, and she was able to sit up without being confused. She had a clear expression and talked with the Emperor for a while, and even ate some food.In the eyes of others, this is the appearance of a great improvement in the condition.Kyung Luo, who had been taking care of the queen mother for several days, lost his heart, and was persuaded by the queen mother and other medical officers to go back and sleep peacefully.

Now that I think about it, that day is just a flashback.The Queen Mother left quietly at nightfall.Her face was peaceful and she seemed to be in a deep sleep, so the medical officers and court ladies who came to cover the Empress Dowager several times did not notice it.When the medicine came in the morning, I found that the Queen Mother was already cold.Not being able to accompany the queen mother to the end, Kyung Luo was too sad to vent.

The medical officer grieved over the death of the Empress Dowager Xuan, and Kyung Luo blankly faced a group of palace people who knelt down to plead guilty, just looked up, turned around and walked out of the inner room, staggering a bit.After that, the emperor stayed alone in the Fu'an Hall, without thinking about food and drink, without any arrangements, and even stopped court for several days in a row.The idle prince Jingxiang who stayed in the capital had to take over the government.

In recent days, Kyung Luo has been arranging the memorial ceremony for the Empress Dowager on the one hand, and on the other hand, the memorial regulations that need to be reviewed urgently that day, and the daily persuasion to the emperor.The bastard younger brother Kyung Luo has not eaten salt or rice for a few days, if not for Kyung Xiang coaxing and tricking him to eat some soft food, it is estimated that the emperor would have to get down.

But Kyungxiang had the illusion that he was going to fall before the emperor, and he was really exhausted.

After receiving the news from the palace, several princes and princesses were also preparing to leave for Beijing to participate in the ceremony.The second prince, Jingsheng, was closer to the capital, so he rushed back to the capital on the same day.In the past few days, Kyung Luo sometimes stays in the Fu'an Palace, and sometimes guards in the bedroom where the Empress Dowager is dead, always alone, even Duan En is not allowed to go near the inner courtyard.Kyung Hsiang takes charge of three jobs by himself and is tired of crying every day.

The second prince Jingsheng, who returned to Beijing before the other princes, saw that the seventh younger brother Jingxiang, who was used to being lazy, had to support the overall situation. He was very tired after days of hard work, so he couldn't help but step in to help.

Kyungsang is naturally happy to be shared with others.Seeing that the person taking over was Kyungsung, although he was a little surprised, he just gave him a grateful look, without any further circling.He knew that he was busy drafting the specific matters of the festival, he thought hard, and occasionally looked up and saw Kyungsung staring at him in a daze, he laughed and felt that he might no longer care.

Lu Mocheng was also devastated.The border defense generals sent by several frontier defense camps were all newcomers, eagerly waiting for food to ask themselves for deployment plans, weapons, and manpower.For him, the deployment plan is just at his fingertips, but the recruitment of soldiers and horses is not his business, and the old man in the weapons department has a particularly bad temper, and Kyung Luo is not allowed to comment on any of them.

But Jingluo was in a bad mood, and Jingxiang was afraid that Lu Mocheng's stupid mouth would make Kyungluo unhappy, so he was afraid that he would be like a guard against wolves, so he couldn't even take half a step closer to Fu'an Hall.The noise caused Lu Mocheng to come to the palace every day to try his luck, no, today he went to the palace to hang out again.As soon as he opened the door and walked in, he saw Kyungsung flipping through something on the side case.

Lu Mocheng was particularly noisy, and Kyung Xiang knew it was him without looking up, he rolled his eyes and said nothing, anyway, he would go away if he felt bored.

"Yo! Second Prince, are you here?" Lu Mocheng looked at Jingsheng, his small eyes lit up suddenly, and Jingxiang's cold ass would not be hot in the next life. The same brother Jingsheng was very different, although Kyungsung also couldn't handle this bluffing general, but he would rack his brains to talk to him more.

"He's here to help the Seventh Prince, General Lu sits by himself." Kyung Sheng smiled and pointed a seat to Lu Mocheng.

"I sent a child to your family a few days ago, what do you think? If not, I can change it to another one?" Lu Mocheng suddenly remembered something, and asked quickly.

Kyungsung said "Oh" before remembering that a child was sent from the palace to protect Xiaoran. He had some kung fu skills, so it turned out to be Tongsheng under General Lu's command. "He Ze'er is very good, and I want to keep it. The princess loves him too. She has already recognized her adopted son and treats Ze'er as her own son. He is very sensible, and he loves Xiaoran, the little demon king. But," Kyung Sheng was a little distressed, put down his pen and rubbed his wrist, sighed and said, "We treat him like a family member, but he dare not step beyond the rules. He is obviously a five-year-old child, and he is very mature."

"There's no other way, haha." Lu Mocheng smiled wryly. He Ze was only five years old, but he had been in the children's camp for five years.Five years ago, when he was still in his infancy, he was picked up by the battalion surnamed He from under the stone pier of Haize, and he was named He Ze casually.Those battalion soldiers are all rough men, who don't know how to take care of children, so they have to be sent to the children's camp to be taken care of by old mothers.

He Ze gradually grew up, probably because he didn't know what to do, he never dared to be naughty, for fear of being abandoned again, he was well behaved, sensible and obedient, not like a child.Speaking of He Ze and Xiaoran growing up, it is already a long time later.

The empress dowager stayed in the palace for seven days, and the whole country mourned for a month, so the empress dowager was sent to the imperial mausoleum for nine days.As time went by, Kyungra seemed to really calm down.After the Empress Dowager was buried, Kyung Luo looked more like a normal person, and he did nothing when Kyung Hsiang failed to deal with it, and he was in perfect order.

Duan En also seems to have started to return to the position of personal guard, standing behind Kyung Luo with one arm upright across his body, following closely, only listening and not speaking.But as dull as Duan En, he seems to feel that Kyung Luo is more absorbed in government affairs than before, but he is gradually not paying attention to his own health. Sometimes he forgets to eat, and he has the right to forget it. He will definitely not take the initiative to eat.

What is even more worrying is that Duan En saw Kyung Luo open his eyes until dawn several times during the night shift, but he couldn't comfort him.Take it to heart, very anxious.

After a while, the palace finished the New Year's Eve for the Empress Dowager ahead of schedule, and after that, Kyung Luo would stay in the Ancestral Hall for a period of time when he said good morning and good evening.Kyung Luo went to the hall to offer incense, and Duan En, as a foreign surname, could only guard in the outer courtyard.It happened that Lu Mocheng had something to go to the palace on this day, and he came to the Ancestral Hall to wait all the way. He hadn't seen Duan En for a long time, so he started chatting.

Lu Mocheng is naturally concerned about the emperor's recent situation, but he is stupid, it's okay if he doesn't say anything, and it's wrong to say too much, his concern for Kyung Luo becomes a far-away protection.But to compare him with Duan En, he is much better than Duan En.Duan En is a person who has to think hard for a long time just to answer a yes or no answer.When Lu Mocheng met someone who was weaker than him, he started to chatter, pouring beans with a clatter.

However, Lu Mocheng didn't realize that he just spoke out of his mind to make people hate him. At most, Duan En was not good at words, so he talked less, but he was liked by others.Being caught by Lu Mocheng, it would be too embarrassing to run away, so Duan En stood in front of Lu Mocheng, thinking for a long time before speaking.

After listening to Duan En's words, Lu Mocheng sighed, but could only smile helplessly.He was the one who had already guessed the ending.Kyungra is too strong, and always pretends that it doesn't matter, but in fact, he is already very uncomfortable. "This person is a practice. He does it once, and again. A long time ago, his dearest relatives and loved ones died because of him. This person can pretend to be a normal person in front of others. Hiding all day long, and waiting for him to come out with great difficulty, his hair turned white all night." Duan En really knew after he said that the entrance to Lu Mo's city was unobstructed. How to structure the story.

"He is very close to you now, so you should spend more time with him." Lu Mocheng patted Duan En's shoulder heavily, and Duan En nodded vigorously in response.

After a while, Kyung Luo came out of the ancestral hall, saw Duan En, who loved hiding in the dark the most, appeared, and stood with Lu Mocheng again, he was quite surprised, and in the blink of an eye, he was smiling .

"Your Majesty, I have something important to discuss." Lu Mocheng suddenly put on a different look for the monarch and his subjects, probably because there was something that should not be heard by outsiders.Duan En voluntarily resigned.

"Oh?" Kyung Luo was a little surprised, so he turned to greet Duan En, "Then you wait for me in the study, with General Lu here, everything will be fine."

Duan En nodded and bid farewell, seeing Kyung Luo and Lu Mocheng walking away side by side, whispering to each other very intimately from time to time, he felt a little envious of Lu Mocheng in his heart.The two walked at a leisurely pace, Duan En's eyes were always on Kyung Luo, he stared at the long white hair tied on the top of his head by the blue crown, and suddenly showed a confused look.

That night, when Xiao Lizi waited for Kyunglo to sleep, Duan En stood in the shadow and watched the emperor sleeping from a distance.After a long time, Kyung Luo's breathing was still restrained, and Duan En couldn't help asking, "Your Majesty?"

I don't know how long it took before Kyunglo let out an annoyed "Huh?", expressing his reaction.Duan En suddenly didn't know what to say. At this moment, Kyung Luo seemed to feel Duan En's embarrassment, and sat up with a smile, "Why, just say what you have to say."

Duan En didn't know what happened all of a sudden, he walked up quickly, and he stretched out his arms to wrap the emperor in his arms.If it was Kyungro, he was also dumbfounded by the warmth of the sudden embrace, and let him hold him without moving.That Duan En hugged the emperor, patting Kyung Luo on the back like coaxing a child, without saying a word.

Kyung Luo couldn't help but let out a sigh, "I still need a poor guard in the end. You are brave enough to treat me like a child."

Of course, Duan En didn't dare to say that Kyung Luo was younger than himself, he was a child who had just fledged, he nodded "hmm", but he still didn't let go.

Knowing that Duan En was stubborn and twisted, Kyung Luo could only sigh and relax and lean on the shoulder of a wooden and clumsy guard.

I never thought that the fragrance of green grass came from this hard embrace.Kyung Luo couldn't help but hug Duan En back, and when he closed his eyes, what appeared in his mind was Mu Yan's face. He ordered someone to bury him, no matter how much he misses, he can't treat others as him, no matter how much he misses Duan En, he won't become Mu Yan's substitute.Even though he told himself so, Kyung Luo, who buried his head on Duan En's shoulder, couldn't help but sniffled, and said in a soft voice, "I miss you so much."

Fortunately, Duan En didn't hear it.Duan En still patted Kyung Luo on the back gently, just like his mother did to him, "Don't be afraid, don't be lonely, I am here." Before thinking about it, after thinking about it, I was surprised to realize that I had expressed the wrong feelings towards the Holy One, so I quickly added, "General Lu and the Seventh Prince must think the same way."

Kyung Luo laughed, "I will stay with you until the end, but you said it." The cunning emperor played a trick on the stupid little guard, and the little guard could only nod his head in agreement.

This night, it was the first time in a long, long, long time that Kyungra felt a sense of tranquility, so peaceful that the smell of green grass was in his dreams.

The author has something to say: A bad habit is that you can’t write without procrastinating... It’s about to gradually reach a climax, someone should be able to guess Duan En’s identity [Yes, yes, it’s exactly what you think! 】